Pulled together by sculptor and
painter Michael Blasi\, these artists share a restrained sense of humor\,
a carefully chosen color palette\, an affinity for the meditative\, and a g
uarded relationship to representation. These are artists the world should b
e seeing more of – they step out together here for a week at Artillery and
Ammo Gallery in Echo Park.

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Kelly E
ginton\, a recent London transplant now based in San Diego\, builds up pict
ures with lines\, sometimes ruler-drawn\, sometimes bent into seismo/cardio
grams to form land and spacescapes. Her recent sculptural work conjures the
fantasy world of an artist-cowboy on the trail\, bringing home the detritu
s of the journey. Dressed up with traditional art and hobby materials\, he
r sculptures seek to explain western mythology to the universe. The landsca
pe of her high-desert childhood informs heavily: think pre-fab\, sun-baked
aluminum siding and hot cloudless skies of 1970s and 80s Riverside County.

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Camilla Brannstrom\, Silverlake resid
ent and Anaheim native – takes on a similar doodle-informed strategy. Her
small striped gouaches and quilt-like collages of colorful phone-doodled po
st-its serve as private meditations in rhythms of color and line. Both Cam
illa and Kelly studied art in the Bay Area – Camilla at California College
of Art in Oakland\, Kelly at the San Francisco Art Institute.

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Paul Evans\, of Hollywood by way of New York\, is w
orking through a series of collaged works on paper. These drawings feature
a central meditative character: an architectural personage featuring four s
ets of xeroxed eyes (the eyes were appropriated from a catalog of dolls gea
red for foster children). This character rests on a delicate scaffold of li
nes in a quiet\, shallow space\, vulnerable and Buddha-like. Paul studied
painting at the School of Visual Arts in New York\, and currently curates t
he gallery space at Happy\, in Hollywood.

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Michael Blasi\, Echo Park native\, is working through his own series: p
ainted paper mache rock-like sculptures he calls “psychedelic suiseki”. The
se sculptures take the tradition of Chinese and Japanese “viewing stones” a
s a jumping off point. Michael’s sculptural forms and paintwork relay the c
ontorted curves of metamorphic\, water-carved geology with the circuitous l
ine of his imagination. Michael also teaches art as a traveling teacher to
elementary students for Los Angeles Unified School District. Michael stud
ied art at Purchase Collage\, State University of New York.